Background Processes – Autodesk Community

Two more notes on this:

> timestamp each placed element (Fab.Part) with the date and time. 

This cannot be achieved in a background process, since the element lives in the Revit database, so access and modification will require a valid Revit API context.

> Documentation and examples for this topic are really hard to find. 

I disagree. The Building Coder has discussed related issues with great frequency, and they have also come up a lot in previous discussions here in the forum; a background process is basically a modeless context, so the interaction between those and the BIM are covered by the discussions on Idling and external events for modeless access and driving Revit from outside: